Nitrogen injected into a column filled with sand particles
 

Hi OpenFoamers

I am new using OenFoam and I am looking for a simulation of a column filled with sand particles and air, then nitrogen is injected into de column.

I did some simulations using DPMFoam and twoPhaseEulerFoam, but the problem with those solvers is that I can only stablish two phases, the fluid (nitrogen or air) and the sand particles.

I also tried with mutiphaseInterFoam, but its useless, because all the phases are discrete and what I need is 2 discrete phases (the air and the solid particles mixed) and one continuous phase (the nitrogen) and also I cannot put particles in that solver. :mad:

I searched on internet I did not find something like that.

1) Is there a solver that can help me out? :confused:

In case that the answer is no:

2) Should I create a new solver? :confused:
3) Is there any university article or research article that could help me to establish the equations to develop the new solver? :confused:
4) Is there another way to do this simulation? :confused:

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks. Have a nice day. :)

Hi,

You could check reactingParcelFoam, there you can have multispecies (air and nitrogen) and lagrangian particles/parcels.

Regards,
Tom